Thread: MIG/TIG Welding Courses @ TAFE

Originally Posted by Shonky

Just got transferred 10,000 times through various people of various nationalities with various grasps of the english language, before I got put onto a blokey sounding bloke who was most helpful.

I start my welding course tomorrow night at Granville!

I was told Meadowbank was not on the list but the same person also told me that the course was 1 year full time. :O lol!

That's great mate , Good Luck with it and let us know how you go..

Cheers mate - will do as long as you do likewise.

Hi Guys;

My teacher is leaving to start a full-time job down at miller TAFE ,we're getting a replacement teacher in new year

he came over tonite and asked me if I wanted to do some Copper TIG welding Never done any welding on Copper. not even sure if I'd be tig welding copper anyways but it's good to know..

previously I practiced quite a bit with Stainless and mild steel , But found copper PITA to weld as you don't seem to get the same capillary action as you would with stainless or mild steel and you need to keep the arc on the weld longer as stuff has a much higher melting point than steel.

anyhow Really enjoying this course and am hopefully moving onto more adv course next year . This is the TIG machine I'm Thinking of getting.

• • AC/DC/HF operation
• • Duty cycle: 30% @ 200 Amps
• • HF start TIG, Lift TIG and Stick weld operations
• • DC TIG mode capable of welding mild steel and stainless steel
• • AC TIG mode capable of welding aluminium
• • Compact, lightweight and portable

I had to weld this little pressure vesel out of Mild steel and have it pressuere tested , probably not the best TIG welding job you've seen but it passed the pressure test....

Hi people;

Anyone wishing to Enrol this sememster , Classes start next Tuesday , I don't believe it's too late to Enrol and from what I can gather there was NOT a huge turnout of students last week to enrol in the "mechanical trade" certificate , so there are still places available . hope to see you there in the class room to do some welding .

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

Hi Guys;

My teacher is leaving to start a full-time job down at miller TAFE ,we're getting a replacement teacher in new year

he came over tonite and asked me if I wanted to do some Copper TIG welding Never done any welding on Copper. not even sure if I'd be tig welding copper anyways but it's good to know..

previously I practiced quite a bit with Stainless and mild steel , But found copper PITA to weld as you don't seem to get the same capillary action as you would with stainless or mild steel and you need to keep the arc on the weld longer as stuff has a much higher melting point than steel.

anyhow Really enjoying this course and am hopefully moving onto more adv course next year . This is the TIG machine I'm Thinking of getting.

• • AC/DC/HF operation
• • Duty cycle: 30% @ 200 Amps
• • HF start TIG, Lift TIG and Stick weld operations
• • DC TIG mode capable of welding mild steel and stainless steel
• • AC TIG mode capable of welding aluminium
• • Compact, lightweight and portable

what price did you get for the unit

cheers phil

Originally Posted by discowhite

what price did you get for the unit

cheers phil

IIRC, Silverwater welding suppliers had them advertised last year for around the $4300.00 mark , included all the bits ie TIG gun / carrry case etc.

Originally Posted by Disco_owner

Hi people;

Anyone wishing to Enrol this sememster , Classes start next Tuesday , I don't believe it's too late to Enrol and from what I can gather there was NOT a huge turnout of students last week to enrol in the "mechanical trade" certificate , so there are still places available . hope to see you there in the class room to do some welding .

Hey khos.............last time you put this up about the college moving etc and asked if anyone wanted to join, (as you said you would like to meet pthers from aulro) I said that both me and ian were interested and asked some questions but you never replied.......

we would really like to do it but next tuesday is probably not enough notice now